Two Senior Secondary 3 (SS3) students of Laureates College, Lagos, Masters Chibuikem Mark Emenyonu and Bright Chiamaka Egbubine, did Nigeria proud in far away USA at the 2013 summer camp programme held at the Howard University, Washington DC and were subsequently offered scholarships. The annual science programme is organised by the National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent U.S. Government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through research programmes and education projects. In this chat with Vanguard Learning, the duo who worked on two different projects in their teams, speak on their projects and the benefits to Nigerians.

But, there were only four or five private universities in Nigeria at the time and I had assumed that the problem would solve itself. Unfortunately, that turned out to be false optimism on my part. The problem got bigger and is rapidly getting out of hand.

The Law Pavillion has put Nigeria on legal technologies world map with its case management system that can allow users link different devices like iPad, Desktop, including Laptop, such that information can be entered, updated, then synchronized across many computer systems and other devices in various law firms or court.

Three months after members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) downed their tools nationwide, over failure of Federal Government to accede to core areas of their 2009 agreement, some of the affected students who are currently on their compulsory Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) have bemoaned the protracted shut-down. On the other hand, some others students who spoke to Quadlife could not care less and seem to be quite content at their SIWES placements.

Senior journalists from the continent and other election stakeholders at a recent gathering facilitated by the Democratic for Good Governance Project of the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP heard many reasons why governance should not be overtaken by election drums.